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ALBERT E, DIETERICH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT .0F COLUMBIA.

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To all whom t mag/concern? yBe it known that I, ALBERT E. DIETERIGH, alcitizen ofthe United States, residing in the city of Washington, District ofColumbia, have -invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cup-Pastry-Making Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates `to the 'art of cup pastry baking. In -this art, cup pastry, such as pattie cups, ice cream cupsand cones and other similar deep ,dished articles, 'are baked in molds having cavities to receive the batter and core elements coperative therewith to shape the dough into the desired form the'article is to assume. In' the beginning of the art it wasthe practice to make jthe molds with a single section bed structure in which the cavities were formed. An eX- ample of this structure may be found in the United States patent .to Valvona #701,776,

issued June 3, 1902, ,orv in the later patent to Baker, #712,473, issued November 4, 1902.

With these constructions, however, thefbaked y product had to be removed from the mold Sp'evcicaton of Letters Patent.

' the .female mold part Iof sections so that the sections could be separated transversely, and

- CaVtieS by hand and only articlesof substantially smooth exteriors could fully produced.

Later a. machine was devised in which an attempt was made to remove the salient -defects of `the prior machines providing be success-A Vmeans for removing the article, and this was done by providing a lifter grid over'iwhich the batter was flowed in the shape .of a wtlfwhich united the adjacent articles into a cupped sheet and after the cores were lifted the grid could beraised to lift the sheet of articles so that all the cups could be loosened from the mold cavities and removed, as a in `unit, by the attendant. An example'. of this construction may be found inthe patent to Patenten tren. raie-ia.

\ Application med october 1,1917. serial No. 194,194. i

ticles of thecupped sheet together. This tr1mm1ng' had to be done manually which meant handling of the several articles.

Later, itvwas discovered -that by.making 160.l

manipulating the core and mold sections in a certain peculiar sequence, any Vkind of ornamentation could be provided on the exterior of the article without atecting the facility of its withdrawal from the mold, that visf-the article could 'be ribbed with transverse or diagonal ribbing, as desired, and furthermore by the use of the divided or separate female mold and the peculiar sequence of operations resulting in bthe automatic extrabtion of the product, it was possible to-tmold the several articles in each cavity separatel and not in the formbfa l cupped sheet an discharge such articles separately from thev machine, or if the articles happenedto be stuck together by over-How batter they would be separated before being V discharged from the machine. This type of 8ov l -man type' have today practically supplanted all other previously known machines.

I The Bruckman machine', while makinga great advance in the art, does not fully meet the fidealconditions, `in that by reason of the v location Yof the trimmer tubes to one side of the extraction station, and the necessity of `shunting the cones from the-extracting 'sta tion to the tubes, makes lthe services of anl attendantnecessary at times to prevent the pecially where raised ornamentation pro- I vided for transverse or diagonal ribbing, as such ornamental articles would not be pulled 5o up out of the mold cavity. Again, it failed to provide for the elimination of handling the article, in removing the same from the machine, a serious objectionable feature for sanitary reasons, and furthermore no pro- 55 vision was made for trimming or removing vthe web of batter that held the several ar kcones before they leave the machine proper cones from tangling Aup` in transit `from the extracting station to the trimmmg tubes, and it further makes n`o provision for boxing the (although a 'boxing'apparatus has been recently provided for by Mr. Bruckman for attachment to the Bruckman machine which will largely eliminate this objection and certain improvements in the trimming mecha- 1-10 nism have been made with a view of elimi-r hating the objections above noted).

Again, thecapacity of the Bruckman machine is necessarily limited by reason of the number ofmolds that can be put Ain a given circle.

invention has for its object to provide an improved machine ofthe broad Bruckman type (i. e., that type in which the loading, baking, molding, extracting and trimming operations, etc., are automatically conducted and a machine which provides for the substantial elimination of handling of the product) in which provision is made for a greatly increased capacity, a greater uniformity in the quality of the product, the

elimination of waste as much as possible, the

elimination of all handling of the product and including its automatic placement into the shipping boxes before removal from the machine and the removal of the scrap from the machine in a cleany and sanitary manner whereby the scrapmay be utilized for huma-n food consumption.

The resent invention also makes provision or a positive removal of the article from the mold cavity, a positive guiding of the same directly into the trimmer tubes 'before it fully leaves the mold cavities and for positively forcing the article through the trimmer tubes and at the same time guiding it into the box compartment where it is to remain for shipment rThe invention also includes a novel method A lfor removing the finished article from molds chain series of mold units of an improved construction inthe interests of eciency and economy of operation, `and to that end the invention includes a novel construction of molding unit forming a link in the chain of molds.

The invention also has for its object to provide an improved arrangement of heating devices whereby to eect'a uniform application of heat to the. molds and cores 1n order to' bake the product to a uniform color both externally and internally.

Again, the invention has for its object to *provide* a construction in which the parts are arranged as simply as possible and of a design,r embodying maximum mechanical strength with minlmum weight and with maximum etliciency of service. l

The invention also resides in thoseI novel features of construction, combination and c arrangement of parts, all of which will be first fully described, then be specically pointed out in the appended claims and illusf trated in the accompanying drawings, in which: j I

Figure l is a side elevation illustrating the-invention. Figs. 1A, 113,10, 1D, l-E and 1F, if taken together, illustrate a side elevation of the machine embodying the invention, parts being shown in section and parts broken away for purposes of illustration. Figs. 2A, 2B and 2C, if taken together, illustrate a partial horizontal section through the aXis of the I@mold chain sprockets.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail vertical section of three units showing the last baking unit, the unit at the extracting station and the unit at the loading or charging station.

X Fig. l is a detail perspective view olf one of the cores.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the core bar showing one of the cores, the'trimmer cutter being indicatedk in. dotted lines.

Fig. 6 is a View illustrating one manner of operating' the clutch for the box conveyer.

' Fig. 7 isa detail view of the escapement dog and the disk which is held by the magnets ofthe clutch disk in locking the driving shaft with the box conveyer shaft during the forward movement of the same.

Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 3 showing p how the dipping method of loading molds maybe employed. Fig. 9 is a detail diagrammatic viewof the batter pumping mechanism. Fig. l0 is a detail section of the nozzle showing the back check valve. Fig. 1l is a cross section on linell-ll of Fig. ll).

. ln the drawings,by joining the lines aY-o i of Figs. lA and 1B, the lines a--o of Figs.

1A and 1B to the similarly designated lines of Figs. 1C and 1D,'and Iby joining the lines af of Figs. 1C and 1D, and by joining the lines b-b of Figs. lC and 1E and by joining the linesi b'of Figs. 1D and-1F and by joining the lines c-a of Figs. 1E and 1F, these figures may be read as one ligure to show a complete side elevation ofthe machlne, the parts beingl broken away to show the character of the idden structure.

By-joining the lines rf-fa of Figs. 2A and 2B and by joining the lines 't5-b of Figs. 2B

,and 2C, these two figures may be read as one.A

In the drawings also like numerals and` letters of reference indicate like parts in all of the gures.,

l represents the main supporting standards .whichmay be of any design or conguration that may be found convenient for supporting the structure V.and 2 designates the shafts which carry the sprocket wheels 3, there being a pair of sprocket wheels vspaced apart and located on each of `the shafts 2,

between .which sprocket Wheels the molding 20 ing withthe gear 6, the

series of mutilations equal 1n number to the' units pass around the same in chain-like formation. The wheels 3 have recesses 4 to receive the roller bearing of the mold link connection shafts 47, the rollers 48 of which are 5 adapted to seat in the recesses`4 as they pass around the lwheels 3. f A The wheel 3 also has anged portions 5 to serve as lcore locks, `while the moldunits are passingaround the arc ot` the wheel. (13,"7'v and 8 designate the gear train which conl`nects the first motion shaft 9 with one of the shafts 2 for the purpose of driving the mold chain and in order that the drive may be effected .in step-bylstep action, the gears 7 and 8 are provided with meshing mutilated.

sections and comprise a gear element of the Geneva type, the gear 7 having adouble row of teeth, one mutilated for meshing with the gear 8 and the other-.unmutilated for meshgear y7 having a number of mold unit 'sectionsi of the wheels A3 so that each revolutionol:l the gear- 8 will impart a steptothe gear 7 whch will in turn impart a step to the wheel 3 `of sufcient degree to move the mold unit from one space to the next.

10 designates the heat tunnel which is preferably in the nature of a sheet iron closure,

the ends 11 of which incase the wheels 3, one

of the ends 11 having an exit flap 12 that can yield outwardly 4to allow the molds to pass, the a 12 serving to act as a heat'retaining shie d above the mold units and the entrance portion 13 of the tunnel '1Q has a flap gate 14 for the same purpose:

15-15 designates the main guide rails of `which `there is a; set at each'side of the machine and these rails arev continuous from f the exit side of the extracting station to the entrance siderof the same, being separated only at the extracting station to permit. the

core lowering :devices to operate. The rails- 15 are arranged Iin pairs and are tiedto- 4`5 .gether f by brackets, 16 which yare secured to the tunnel 10 and main framing 1, where possible, to support the tracks 15 in a rigidl manner. 17 is 'the mold locking track which has its entrance 18 arranged to eectf the closing and locking-action of the molds as theyleave .the extracting station, the terminal end 19 of the cam track 17 being preferably located between the extractingtation l and the last baking station so that the molds may not be accidentally unlocked until they leave thelast baking station. While I pref'- fer to have the cam track 17 continuous, yet it is'obviousjif the mold lock is constructed as shownl the track 17 maybe omitted at intervals, if so desired, especially where the j tendency for the molds to self-open is zero.

20 designates the core locking cam which has an entrant end 21 preferably located approximate to the loadingstation so that as the molds leave the loading station the cores will be pressed down-into the molds cavities to spread the-batter to lill the Same and follow-inl the entrant end 21, the cam track v20 iis un ulated, as at 22, to allow for steam or vapor escape' during-the initial part of the baking operation. .The cam' track 20 preferably extends from the loading station vto the wheel 3 and at the top between the .two wheels 3the function of the track 2.0

being performed at the Wheels by the flanges 5. The upper section ofthe cam track 20 terminates,as before stated, at 23, adjacent toeach of the Wheels 3. j

24 designates vthe core lifter cams, thel function of which is to'raise the core slightly in the mold as it leaves the last baking sta-- tion toloosen it from the product,and in my construction, I prefer to again' lower the at the extracting Station and in order to do this the cam24 is depressedv adjacent to the extracting station,y and in order to insure the positive lowering of the por'es, lowering cams 25 may be employed.

26 is the core raisingv cam which lifts the core as the molds pass from the extracting station, a considerable distance up from the molds so that by the time 'the charging station is reached, the core will be raised sufficiently to permit the dough supplyingr nozzle to come into position to squirt a charge of ,batter into the molds, (this is When the squirting method is employed, as will be hereinafter more fully explained).

Each molding and baking unit comprises a pair of`links 27 having vertical slots28 and guideways 29` for the operation of the core bar 49 and each link also has horizontal slots 30 and guideways 31 for the pins 35 and guide blocks 32 of the half-mold units The half-mold units 33* lare provided with the `cavities 36 which, when the molds core1 into the mold by the time it arrives aredesigned for molding ice cream cones, J 4

consist of the corrugated portions 36 surmounted by the neck forming counterbore 37 and the core head recess38, the latter be# ing vpreferably provided "with steam escapes 1 39, such as shown in the patent to Walter McLaren, #1232820 granted July 10, 1917.

. Each half-mold member is preferably pro-A vided wth a heat shield 34 between which and the sides of the molds 33,' the heating Each-link 27 has lugs 46 through which' the connecting rods or shafts `47 project and incassi form a hinge for adjacent pairs of links, the rods 47 at their ends carryin rollers or wheels 48 that ride between t e pairs oftracks 15.

The core bar 49 is preferably of a channel section and has bracket portions 50 at its ends to sustain the pintles 51, which pintles project through the slots 28 and' 44 to cooperate With the cams 24, 25, 26, 21, 22, 20, etc., and the slotted head 66 of core lowering member 65 hereinafter again referred to. The cores 52 are preferably ofthe hollow type and are tapped at 57 into the core bar and secured by jam nuts 58, each core having its head formed Vof an integral-portion4 53 and a ring 54, thetwo portions 53 and 54 having pin and slot connections 55, a suitable spring 56 being interposed between the rings 54 and core bar 49 to normally maintain the ring 54 down on the member 53, whereby the lower surfaces of these two parts will substantially register.

59 designates the trimmer tubes which are supported on brackets 60 directly be- -neath the molds at the extractingv station .and as close thereto as conveniently possible,

the trimmer tubes 59 being adapted to discharge into a throat 61 that in turn discharges the product directly into theboxes,

in which the linished article is to be shipped:

62 is an inclosed hopper or pan which surrounds the trimmer tubes 59 and has an opening 63 adjacent to the tubes through which the trimmings may fall into the hopper 62 from which they are removed through a suction blower Iduct 64 and stacked at any suitable place, thus preventing .the trimmings from falling to the floor, and becoming contaminated. Furthermore, the hopper 62 protects the trimmin 's from oil drippings and dirt until they are conveyed away by the suction blower, thus enabling the trimmings to be keptclean and enabling their use for food for human consumption, since the trimmings are lthoroughly baked and may be utilized in various ways as a food stu. l

65 designates thecore bar lowering and raising slides which are located at theeX- tractlng -station, there being one slide at each side of the machine. Each slide 65 .has a slotted head 66 which'is designed to 'receive the pintles 51 while the mold unit is at the extracting station and theslides are vertically operated in stationary slideways 76 suitably supported bythe main framing of the machine. The slides 65 also have track sections 67 which Aaline with the slot 69 of a leve? 70 (there being one lever at each side of the machine) ,lthe lever70 being bar raising and lowering cam that is secured on the shiaft 9, it being understood that if the levers 70 are securely pinned to the` shaft 72, but one connecting rod 73 and cam 75 need be employed. l 1

7 7 designates thergrooved end of a lever 7 8 (there being one lever at each side of the machine) which lever is secured to a cross shaft 8O and has its end 79 connected to the cam rod 81, the rod y81 having a cam pin 90 to operate in the mold opening and closing cam 83, it being understood that where the two levers 78 are securely pinned to the shaft 80 but one-rod 81 and cam 83 need be employed, the object being to` operate the levers 70-70 and 80-80 at the two sides of the machine in unison.

84 designates the batterduct into Which the batter is pumped under constantpressure l that purpose a pressure regulating valve 133 is'interposed in the duct 132.

rlhe tube 34 is securely clamped tc the' main framing 1, or in any other way suitably supported in a rigid position, and it has Ia collar 85 which is adapted to project over the end of an outer tube 86 which has a telescopic fit on the tube 84. 'llhe tube 86 carries the lseveral nozzle arms 134, and has a rotaryl motion on the tube 84 as an axis.`

Illhis is accomplished by providing the tube 86 with a bearingrcollar 87 suitably journaled in a support' which ma be a part of the main frame, and which as a lever 88 that is rocked by the action of a cam 91 through the medium of a ccnnectin-g red 89' whose pin 90 coperates with the cam 91, the

rod 89 being mounted for longitudinal inotion.

At proper intervals the connecting rod 89 is reciprccated to move the larms 1,34 to bring the nozzles'into the loading position (see Fig. 3) at which time theentrant end of the arms 134 will register with the opening 92 which is formed in the tube 84, it bein-g understood that there is one opening 92 for each arm 134. Each nozzle 135 is preferably provided with a light back check valve 136 of a suicient force onlyjto hold the batter within the arm 134 against dripping after the valve 93 is closed.v

93 designates the valve which has openings 94 to register with the openings 92 at intervals and this valve 93 is also in the nature of ins iai

Lacasse l 84 enters the valve 93 and the batter in the valve 93 is maintained at a constant pressure,

las before stated.

101 designates the driving shaft of the box conveyer 116, which conveyeris in the nature of a non-slipping belt or chain havingbox engaging fingers 117 located at suitb e intervals-'apart andthe conveyer 116 y takes over the pulleys 115.

eluded in this circuit.

J105 designates a bearingvfor the shaft 101 and 102 is a clutch plate slidably keyed at 103 to the shaft y101 and adapted to be gripped by a. suitable clutch onthe power shaft 107 I prefer, for convenience, to provide a magnetic clutch 104 energized atintervals in order to cii'ect a step-by-step action of the belt 116. In order that this action may be accomplished in a step-by-step manner, I provide a gear train 114-113 connected with the first motion shaft 9, the ear 113 having a pin 151 which is adapte to close an electric circuit between a pair of contacts 111 to which the wires 138 from a magnet 140 are joined, it being understood that a suitable source of energy '141 is in- The magnet 140 is designed to release an escapement lever 142 which coperates with notches 143 yin the clutch disk 102 and as the magnet 140 is energized to rock the lever 142 it closes `a circuit between a pair of contacts 144 which are connected by circuit wires 137 to clutch magnets y106, a source of energy 112 being lncluded in the circuit `for energizing purposes. Clutch 104 is carried on'shaft 107 V which is gear connected at 108-109 with the shaft 110 ofa continuously operating transverse conveyer 120 whose drive pulley 119 is Y on the shaft 110 and which serves to take the filled boxes out of the machine 121, having a stop 139 (see Fig. 1.) against which the boxes are delivered by the conveyer 116, passing them over the bridge 118 onto the conveyer 120. Shaft(` 110 is continuously driven in 'any desired manner, from the first motion shaft 9 of the machine, as by a transmission shaft 145, or in any other suitable manner, the varrangement being such, however,`that the conveyer 116 is advanced at suitable intervals, depending upon the operation of the other-parts ofthe machine.

Where the boxes are intended to holdr one hundred cones andeach mold is designed to mold ten cones at a time, the' boxes are provided with two rows of five compartments each, each compartment being designed to hold ten cones, making a total of fifty cones i provide two boxes in transverse alinement to be ,located under the extracting station at the same time and every time the shaft 9 makes ten revolutions, the conveyer 116 will be advanced one step. In order that the proper intervals between the steps'may be obtained the notches'143 in the disk 102 are spaced to correspond with the intervals,

the intervals bein first a step from one nest of a box to the ot er, and then a step from the second nest of that box to the first nest of the next box, being a short and a long interval, which will be more fully explained hereinafter. K i

` Instead of using a squirting apparatus for charging the molds, Imayn use the dipping method and this can be accomplished by beginning the track 17 after the charging station so asto leave the half-molds open as they pass from the extracting to the -charging station and by duplicating the slides 65 at the charging station and byproviding a duplicate lever mechanism 70 at the charging station solas to lower the cores at the charging station into astationarily held dipping tank, the arms 70 at the charging station operate in unison with the arms 70 at theextracting station the female molds 'clos-y ing on .leavingthe extracting station, closure being effected by the entrant end of the cam track 17, thus giving sufficient time for 1. from which it will be Seen thatl after the mold has arrived` at. the charging station, the half-mold members will be closed and locked and the cores will be elevated by the cam 26. As'the mold unit approaches the charging 4Station from the extracting station, the cam 91 will begin to lower the nozzles 135 'into the position ,shown best in Fig. 3 and by the time the-mold "unit has arrived at the charging station the arm 134 will have come to the position whereby it will register with theopening 92 in the tube 84 (see Fig. 3). As soon as the mold unit has arrived -at the charging station the cam 100 will quickly rock the valve tube 93 to bring the opening v94 into register with the opening 92 and permit a charge of batter to be squirtedc into, the mold unit (see Fig. 3) and then the said cam will. quickly close the valve opening 94 after which the cam 91 will rapidly rock the tube 86 tomove the arms for each box; thus it will be necessary to .134 upwardly and bring the nozzles 135 high enough to clear the .top of .the core bar 49 by the time the same shall have arrived under the nozzles, it being understood that the advancing movement of the chain can comvated. In other words, the elevating movement of the nozzles and the advancement of lthe chain of molding units can be overlapped. This is in the interest of speed of operation.

The mold with its charge of batter then passes through the entrance to the entrant end of the baking tunnel and `cornes underl ing steanrand gas throughout a sufficient interval of time to permit of the escape of the gaseous products before the core is finally locked down under the straightportion of the cam track 20. The molds then pass around through ythe baking tunnel to the exit` end of the same, all the while being subject Yto the influence of heat for baking purposes.

As the mold unit leaves the exit end of the baking tunnel, the core bar is Slightly Lacasse l yielding ring portion of `the head, together mence before the nozzles 135`are fuly elel with the downward movement of the core, will serve to push the lcone through the trimmer tube and trim oft the excess batter or head, thetrimmings Ithereupon falling into the receiver 62 and being drawn od by `suction and'y stacked at any convenient location. As soon as the core has reached the` limit of its downward lmovement Ait is immediately again elevated to its initial position andas soon as the core has elevated suflioiently to permit the half-mold members to come together, the chain begins to move another step so as to carry the mold unit from the `extracting station to the charging station Where it receives its new charge, as before described, the molds being Aclosed in transit between the extracting and the charging stations, when the pumping or squirting method of supplying batter is employed. rlfhe core is also elevated in passing from the extracting to the charging station.

.to allow the injection of the batter. en, v

raised by the cams 24, the half-mold members being still locked together, and thus the core is freed from the baked -product which is held in the female mold by virtue of the corrugations or riligree work or relatively greater roughness ofthe wall of the" fem/ale mold than that of the core. In the preferred arrangement., the cores, after being slightly raised, are held projected into the mold cavity until the female mold elements are separated, whereby the projecting core will strip the cones from the opening mold -ele ments.

`S3, the said molds being tracting station, As soon as the female molds have opened suiiiciently far for the purpose` the core, acting as a fingen'serves to detach the cone from the ,female mold cavity walls, and by the time the mold unit reaches the extracting station, the core bar will have its pintles 51 in engagement with the slotted heads 66 of the lslides 65, which shdes, as soon as the .female inolds are opened wide enough, are brought down-by the action of the camV 75. to follow the 'released cone (and if it sticks at all to pushJ r1t through the female mold) and direct the yreleased cone into the trimmer tube 59, further downward movement of. the core bar serving to bring the head of the core into euhowever, the dipping method of supplying batter is employed, the core bar will simply beheld to travel horizontally from thehead 66 of the slide 65 at the extracting station to thecorresponding head at the charging sta# tion and in this 'form of the invention the member 26X will be a straight track instead of a cam track andthe entrant end 18 of the core locking cam track 17 willbe located atV the out-going side of the charging station tracting station.

tion tothe chain I prefer to employ a Geneva or mutilated gear movementas this is not cones have been guided through the trimmerv only a convenient wayto advance the chain but it also serves to lock the chain with the mold units at the several operating stations.

As soon as a predetermined number of tubes and into the boxes beneath,- the boxes are advanced as before described, so that the next compartment in order may be filled.

While the drawings illustrate a: preferred iat lll@

construction of my invention, lt desire it understood thatvnumerous changes in the details l,of construction, proportion andl arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims and greater or lesser number of units may be employed as may be found most desirable in practice.

Furthermore, the number of cones baked by` each unit is not to be considered as limited, asany number, from one cone per unit iip, can be baked in a' set of molds as may be found most convenient in practice.

Any suitable vent holes may be provided in the tunnel 10 as conditions met with in .lit

Apractice may indicate-to` be desirable and as ldd' In order to impart an intermittent mo-v 

